Maggie's Farm

In a post about our post on The Default Brain, Dr. X mentioned Alan Shore's Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, which is a broad and bold effort to integrate neuroscience, development, brain evolution with human psychology.

That's the sort of thing that Freud, a Neurologist by training, aspired to do, but the data wasn't there at the time and he gave up on the effort.

I know of Dr. Shore, and I will read the book. The reviews are impressive. ("Affect" is a fancy shrink word for emotions.) I think the reason it had not attracted my attention is because I react against any title with the word "self" in it. That word turns me off because it makes no sense to me, and neither do the theoretical constructs referring to it.